Grace Elizabeth Kissling is a biostatistician who works at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences as chief statistician for the National Toxicology Program. Kissling graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics. She completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1981 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Her dissertation, supervised by Lawrence L. Kupper, was A Generalized Model for Analysis of Nonindependent Observations. In 2011, Kissling was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.